Open Lab Evening: Human Centered Design

Learning to shape the future

How do we find innovative solutions to the pressing problems of our time? At the "Human Centered Design" open lab evening, you will get to know the approach of human-centered design in fast-forward. In small groups, you will try out methods to systematically identify the needs and challenges of users and discover sustainable, meaningful solutions step by step.

WHAT IS AN OPEN LAB EVENING?

The lab gets creative every Thursday. You will learn about methods such as design thinking or future storytelling, can try out 3D printers and laser cutters and take a look behind the scenes of the lab projects. There's something new every week.

Human Centered Design can be applied in many ways. It can be used in everyday working life, for example, to understand the perspective of your users, such as in the sustainable design of manufacturing processes.

In terms of content, we will look at the role of raw materials in our future. We deal with raw materials every day in our everyday lives: We build our houses from them, power cars and machines with their energy, bake our bread with them and use them for our smartphones and computers. It's hard to imagine a world without raw materials. But we are facing major challenges: Our demand for raw materials is constantly increasing, extraction is damaging nature and the environment and many people are suffering from the extraction and unequal distribution of raw materials. And in the future?

In this workshop, we will be looking at zero waste - the "waste of the future":

>What does a world without waste look like?

>How can we manage to produce as little waste as possible?

>How do we give things a new life?

>What does a world without waste mean for people and nature?

The event is part of the workshop series "Learning to shape futures", which takes place once a month as part of the Open Lab evening. In a total of four modules, you will learn well-founded methods for shaping the future, which you can put together to create your own individual future method kit.

WORKSHOP MANAGEMENT

The Berlin Ideas Lab is a laboratory for transformation design. The team supports organizations in the design process of sustainable product and service innovations as well as desirable visions of the future using methods of futurology, design thinking and visual storytelling.

INFORMATION

>Venue: Workshop Futurium Lab (-1)

>Admission: free of charge

>Language of event: German

>Max. Number of participants: 20 people

>Conditions for participation: no previous knowledge required

>Recommended age: from 16 years

ACCESSIBILITY

>We are a wheelchair accessible venue.

>Seats without seating are available for wheelchair users.

The future is for everyone! The Futurium wants to be accessible to everyone. If you have any other access needs, please let us know. We will try to fulfill them:

You can find all information on accessibility here:

PHOTO & VIDEO

Photos and videos will be taken during the event. If you do not wish to be photographed, please let us know in advance.

TICKETS

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Meeting point: Workshop area in the Futurium Lab

Next date:

• Date Thursday, 30/January/2025 17:00 bis 20:00
• Venue Futurium
• Address Alexanderufer 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte